2008 Mahboob Khan Outstanding Mentor Award Winners

The Mahboob Khan Outstanding Mentor Award recognizes individuals who, in serving as SRC
GRC Industry Liaisons, have had significant impact on the technical contributions of the
research, have been instrumental in transferring the research results to industry, and
are deeply committed to the education of graduate students. Nominations for individuals
serving as Industry Liaisons are accepted from members of the SRC GRC community including
SRC GRC-sponsored university researchers and graduate students.

Magdy S. Abadir of Freescale for his work with Professor Li-C Wang of the
University of California/Santa Barbara. Magdy was cited for his committment to students.
He has arranged several industry internships, continuing the relationship with students
when they returned to campus as well as serving on a number of Ph.D. committees.

The team of Kemal Aygun and Henning Braunisch of Intel for their work with
Dr. Paul Franzon at North Carolina State University and Professor Weng Cho Chew of the
University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign. Drs. Augun and Braunisch provided leadership to
PI Franzon that enabled research results to reflect important issues versus purely
academic issues. Dr. Chew's student, Maokun Li, spent two summers interning under the
their direction, allowing him to elevate research theory to real-world applications.

Anne E. Gattiker of IBM for her work at Carnegie Mellon University with Dr. Shawn
Blanton's students. Anne has arranged several industry internships that give students a
glimse to what is needed by industry. She has been an active Ph.D. committee member to
GRC students providing real life input into academic research.

Taras A. Kirichenko of Freescale for work with the students of Dr. Sanjay Banerjee
at the University of Texas/Austin. His vision, infectious enthusiasm and a passion for
research was mentioned by several students who have been influenced by Taras. According
to one student, he played an important role in bridging the gap between university
research and industry needs by being available to discuss and provide feedback.

Ruchir Puri of IBM with Professor David Pan at the University of Texas/Austin.
Ruchir has encouraged this PI to stay relevant with industry needs and to solve really
crucial problems. Ruchir enabled the ultimate technology transfer - the hiring of highly
qualified individuals that brings novel/out-of-the-box ideas to real industry challenges,
through his long term relationship with students.

Robert Rosenberg of IBM for work at Cornell University with Professor David Muller
and at the University at Albany with Kathleen Dunn. Dr. Rosenberg's vast experience has
been an inspiration to GRC professors and students alike. Dr. Dunn's acknowledges that
Bob was instrumental in the restructuring of a struggling project to align it perfectly
with industry's needs and its ultimate success.

Friedrich J. Taenzler of Texas Instruments for collaboration with Dr. Sule Ozev at
Duke University. Friedrich's critical eye has provided a fair and balanced assessment to
Dr. Ozev's graduate student. This input guided the student to look at problems from an
industry setting point-of-view and consider how academic aspects can be applied to
industry.

Stefan Zollner of Freescale with Dr. Alex Demkov of the University of
Texas/Austin. Stefan's relationship with this research project began before the
university became involved, he recognized the problem and found the right team to do the
research. His invovlment continued through the funding process and the implementation
process. He met bi-weekly with the research team and was coauthor on a number of papers,
in addition he enabled a student to present a paper at an international meeting.